Despite major progress in the last 15 years, the reduction of the burden of malaria and tuberculosis remains a key objective for global health. Between 2000 and 2014, 43 million lives were saved through effective […]
How Eve Online players are helping medical science The Human Protein Atlas is a scientific research program whose goal is to map the human proteome. With this information medical science can better explain the biological […]
Humans routinely solve problems of immense computational complexity by intuitively forming simple, low-dimensional heuristic strategies. Citizen science (or crowd sourcing) is a way of exploiting this ability by presenting scientific research problems to non-experts. ‘ […]
What do physicists do when they can’t solve a bunch of complicated problems in quantum mechanics? They give the task to gamers. Danish physicists and researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have developed a new […]
Humans best computers in atom-snatching game By Adrian Cho, Apr 13, 2016 Bring Home Water relies on people’s knack for performing tasks that involve dynamic movement. […] Jacob Sherson, the physicist at Aarhus University in […]
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